Seen on a bumper sticker:
If Democrats don't abort you, they'll tax you to death!

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

This Ain't Right!

I don't think a good chunk of people have a clue just how dangerous harvesting eggs is to women.
Chicks Protect Their EggsCloning is a women's issue.

That's the response Jennifer Lahl says she gets "over and over again" when she talks to people about "the women's health and safety" concerns at the heart of the debate over embryonic-stem-cell research and cloning.
(See Hands Off Our Ovaries)
Already routine at fertility clinics, egg donation is an unpleasant process that includes prodding and surgery; "donors" (sometimes highly paid) are given hormones to ensure they produce more than the routine monthly amount of eggs - more means a better shot at success. This largely unregulated industry (an estimated $38 million one) has paid little attention to the potential long-term harm from such hyperstimulation. As two bioethicists from Stanford declared last year in an article in Science magazine, at a minimum women should be made aware both that the risks include infertility and even death and that their "donations," in the case of embryonic-stem-cell research and cloning, may never actually contribute to a cure for anything.